OLIVER Williams is heading in the right direction to become one of the country’s top orienteers.

The 14-year-old, from Coppenhall, Crewe, has been called into the Great Britain squad for a week-long training camp in Scotland starting on Saturday.

That puts him among the best practitioners of a sport which is likely to become an Olympic event of the future.

His mum Julie said: “Oliver consistently finishes in the top five in his age group in the country and aims to be number one.

“Most boys have already been orienteering for several years before they each this level so it is quite outstanding that Oliver has reached this level just two years after taking up the sport.”

Orienteering is a challenging outdoor adventure sport that exercises both the mind and the body.

The aim is to navigate in sequence between control points marked on a unique map and decide the best route to complete the course in the quickest time.

Orienteering forms part of the World Games but so far efforts for it to be included at the Olympics have been unsuccessful.

Oliver first tried the sport at Sandbach School two years ago.

He has won his age category in the Cheshire and Merseyside Schools League for the past two years, and last September was called in to the North West junior squad.

He trains with the regional squad each month in the Lake District, and in June he was selected for the GB training camp in Lagganlia, Scotland thanks to outstanding performances.

On his return from the camp Oliver will be part of the Sandbach School squad at Tay 2009 – a six-day championship in Scotland. The talented teenager will go to Belfast with the North West squad later this year.